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• If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle.…
• I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
• So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive,…
• I think the great artists (..) have always thought with the heart.
• This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element…
• There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or…
• I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my…
• There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics…
• For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church…
• Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
• Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.
• In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

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